Japs Starving On By-Passed Islands
SYDNEY, This Day. Starving Japanese troops are fighting to the death for scraps of food on the snfall Pacific islands bypassed by the Allies, according to reports received in Bougainville. The death rate from starvation and disease on Mille and Wotje (Marshalls) has been particularly high. More than 500 of the comparatively small garrison on Mille have died. No supplies have reached the island since December, 1943. Recently, one Japanese on Mille stole a coconut and 20 were killed in the fierce brawl that followed.
On Wotje. 25 Japanese are dying daily. The Japanese are trying to survive on weeds, papaw tree pulp, lizards, crabs and wild potatoes. The Japanese garrison of about 5000 on Nauru is slowly dying of starvation.
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1945, Page 3
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